PHGN-480 Fall-2017
Contents |
Course Information
Professor: Dr. Charles Durfee
Office: Timberline 1, room 15
Meeting Times:
class: M W 11:00-11:50 AM Green 211
lab: Th 9-11:50, GRL Annex
Announcements
30 August 2017: Homework 1 is posted.
28 August 2017: Welcome to Laser Physics!
I will be posting class notes and the first homework soon. Homework will be due wednesdays.
Notes for classes 1 and 2 are posted below.
Office hours
Times: M12:30-2:00, T 1-2, W12:30-2:00
Look for me in my office. If I'm anywhere else, I'll post a note.
Course Material
Syllabus and Reading List
Main text: O. Svelto, Principles of Lasers, 5th edition. There is also online access to the book from a campus/VPN connection:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/n72670/#section=672851&page=1
These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader
|
Homework Assignments and Midterm:
Grading policy:
Turn in homework on time for full credit. At the time we give homeworks back to you, solutions will be available in printed form in a binder that I'll keep, but you can make a copy.
These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader
|
Lab exercises:
These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader
|
Final project
These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader
|
Lecture Notes
While these notes are primarily to help me give my lectures, I'm posting them to help you fill in things you may have missed in class or to show the details of calculations we don't have time to work through. If you have any constructive input on how to make these more useful to read, let me know.
Note: if an instructor would like to make use of these slides, please acknowledge me. I would be happy to share the original .pptx files on request (email).
These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader
|
Mathematica Demos
These aren't actually pdf's. Do a "save link as" to save these to your computer, then open with Mathematica.
Useful Links
Photonics.com article on history of lasers
APS article on Townes laser inventions
Javan and Bennet invent HeNE laser
Lab design information
Computer software for lab equipment
You can load the software for the power meter using this website:
This should work for any version of Windows.
The camera software is at this site:
This only works on Windows 7.
For later versions of Windows (at least 8), this driver should work. [1]
Thorlabs Fabry-Perot interferometer
These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader
|
Diode-pumped solid state laser
These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader
|
Thermistor calculator to convert measured resistance to temperature thermistor calculator
Compass 215M single longitudinal mode green laser
These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader
|
External cavity diode laser
These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader
|
Links
Wavelength Electronics: Spec page for diode power cable spec page
Siskiyou: Spec page for flexure mirror mount flexure mount page
Thorlabs: diode collimation tube collimation page